Insight - Page 20

The few surviving telecom firms in India have demanded that 5G air-waves be auctioned by the Government at the soonest. To some extent, I agree....

For the uninitiated, here’s a wake-up call, while we still breathe easy and free. We are headed for a calamity of our own doing, but we shamelessly...

I am turning old and had concluded that life’s ups and downs have hardened my countenance and shell. Not totally, it seems… For yesterday, some simple...

It is heart-breaking that we find ourselves in such a state of affairs in India today, economically and otherwise. Why should I talk evasively? Let me...

Quietly and largely unnoticed, a giant has flown into the dusk and disappeared — for good, never to return, thanks to COVID-19 and the changing world...

Just when we had begun to relax our heart and gut muscles after months of fear and worry, there’s more terrible news. COVID-19 has entered its third...

I first noticed the trend six months back, as repeated classified ads in newspapers shook me up, and the innocence in the pictures let out in me a...

I met a beautiful and rather impetuous girl two decades back. Arrogant and shameless she was. Unfortunately, she still is. But somehow, she has...

I asked a friend to accompany me and Anjali to our home in Manali in a few days. He was keen, but festered long and hard about the longevity of his...

It is a strange and disquieting situation that while our own stalwarts are keeping quiet and are voiceless on the real burning issues confronting the...

When the media gets it wrong, it gets it really wrong, and the repercussions are far-reaching and damaging. Take the auto sector, for example. News...

A while back, we started strangulating and maiming numbers. To hide the truth. Shamelessly. For that’s convenient. The truth, though, comes out. And...